Moving Monkeys

📚✨IT’S BOOK WEEK AT KINDERGYM! STORYTIME MEETS GYMNASTICS! 🤸‍♂️📖

Once upon a time... your little gymnast had an absolute blast tumbling through their favorite stories! This week at Kindergym, we’re celebrating Book Week, and we’re bringing imagination to life on the mats.

Grab your favorite costumes from home because dress-ups are HIGHLY encouraged! Whether your little one is a brave superhero, a magical fairy, a hungry caterpillar, or a mischievous monkey, we can't wait to see them in action. 🧙‍♀️🦁 Superhero, knight, or bear, who will they be this week?

📝 Quick Costume Checklist for Safety:
Make sure costumes are comfortable and easy to move, jump, and roll around in.

We can’t wait to see all the magical characters at the gym! See you there! 🌈✨

🌈 SHAPE OF THE WEEK: RAINBOW BACKS! 🌈

It’s RAINBOW WEEK at KinderGym! 🌈✨

This week we’re exploring Rainbow Backs - using our bodies to create curved shapes, just like a rainbow!

We’ll practise our two rainbow shapes:
😾 Angry Cat: curving our back up towards the sky 🌈
😸 Happy Cat: curving our back down towards the floor 🌈

Both shapes help our little gymnasts develop body awareness, spinal mobility, coordination and strength while having lots of fun!

✨🌈 Our New KinderGym Theme: Rainbows! 🌈✨

For the next two weeks, our KinderGym classes are stepping into a colourful rainbow adventure! 🌈

Our gymnasts will balance across rainbow bridges, crawl through colourful tunnels, jump into rainbow puddles and collect all the colours of the rainbow. Along the way they'll build confidence, develop gross motor skills and practise fundamental gymnastics skills including balancing, climbing, jumping and rolling, all through imaginative play.

We can't wait to share this bright and colourful theme with all of our KinderGym families over the next fortnight. See you in class! ☀️🌈💛

🏗️ SHAPE OF THE WEEK: The Crane Balance! 🤸✨

This week at Kindergym, our tiny builders are reaching for the sky with the Crane Balance!

How to do it: Stand tall on one leg with arms reaching high! 🏗️

Why it’s great for little bodies:

🎯 Balance & Control: Builds confidence on their feet.

💪 Leg & Core Strength: Turns muscles into strong foundations.

🧠 Focus: Helps kids practice concentration while reaching high!

Encourage your little gymnast to show off their best Crane Balance at home! 💛

🎟️ New to Kindergym? Visit our website to book a TRIAL LESSON today! 🛠️👇

https://movingmonkeys.au/classes

🚧 GRAB YOUR HARD HATS! Construction Week is Here! 🚜✨

Calling all tiny builders! For the next fortnight, our Kindergym is transforming into the ultimate active construction zone! 🏗️💛

We’re swapping tools for tumbling as our little crew builds big skills through fun, movement-based play.

Here is what’s on the blueprint for the next two weeks:

💣 Heavy Work, Big Fun: Hoisting "concrete", pushing tyres, and wheeling heavywheelbarrows to build strong bodies and calm minds!

🚜 Building Strong Foundations: Activating core strength by rolling the steamroller barrel and holding strong front support shapes.

🏗️ Steady Builders: Practicing our tall crane balances and navigating the beams with "boulders" to build confidence and body control!

🦺 Ready to join the crew? Head to our website to book your TRIAL LESSON today! 🛠️👇

https://movingmonkeys.au/classes

Tag a gymnastics buddy who needs to join the fun! 👇

🏍️ KinderGym Shape of the Week: Motorbike! 🏍️

This week's Kindergym Shape of the Week is Motorbike – our safe landing shape!

To make a Motorbike shape, children land with their feet apart, knees bent and arms reaching out in front. We use this shape every time we jump to help children land safely and with control.

Practising our Motorbike shape helps children:
⭐ Learn safe landing skills
⭐ Develop balance and body control
⭐ Strengthen muscles needed for jumping and landing
⭐ Build confidence and coordination

We can't wait to see all our little monkeys showing off their safe Motorbike landings in class this fortnight! 🐵

🌾🚜 New KinderGym Theme: Farmyard Friends! 🐮🐓

Our gym is getting a farmyard makeover! Over the next two weeks, children will explore farm-themed gymnastics designed to encourage climbing, balancing, jumping, swinging, rolling and coordination through fun, purposeful movement.

With farm inspired obstacle courses, equipment set-ups and group activities, each class will help children build confidence, develop fundamental movement skills and strengthen their gross motor development in a fun and engaging environment.

We can't wait to welcome all our little farmers for another fortnight of learning, movement and farmyard fun! 🐷🌾💚

🎉 Term 3 starts next week! 🤸‍♀️

We can't wait to welcome all of our KinderGym and School Age families back for another fun filled term of gymnastics!

💚 Check your email for your Term 3 enrolment information and remember to pay your deposit to secure your place. If you have any questions, just send us an email.

Thinking about joining Moving Monkeys? We'd love to have you! Book a trial through our website or get in touch and we'll help you find the perfect class.

See you in the gym next week! 🐵

❄️⛸️ WINTER SCHOOL HOLIDAYS BREAK ⛸️❄️

A reminder that Moving Monkeys classes will be taking a short winter break for the school holidays ❄️

We’ll be closed for 2 weeks to rest, reset, and recharge 🔋✨

We’ve had the best term and have absolutely loved sharing in all our gymnasts’ progress, energy, and achievements 💙🤸‍♀️

We look forward to welcoming everyone back from Monday July 13th 🤸‍♂️✨

Thank you for your continued support - we can’t wait to get back to movement, fun, and learning soon! 🐒

🚀 KinderGym Shape of the Week: Rocket Shape! 🚀

As part of our Space theme in KinderGym, we're practising our Rocket Shape!

✨ Feet together
✨ Arms stretched straight up overhead
✨ Body tall and tight like a rocket ready for launch

Rocket Shape helps build balance, body awareness and coordination while encouraging imaginative play and movement.

Can your little astronaut hold their Rocket Shape all the way to the moon? 🌙⭐🚀

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